Prompt-Led Product | For PMs Building in the AI Era

Prompt-Led Product | For PMs Building in the AI Era

Builds

50,000 Words Broke My Editor. Here Is How I Fixed It.
How I rebuilt DraftKit’s Tiptap editor for book-length manuscripts, and the three performance decisions every PM building with AI tools needs to make…
 • Elena | AI Product Leader
Your Database Realtime Channels Are Open to Every Authenticated User in Your App. Here Is the Two-Step Fix.
How I caught a presence data leak in DraftKit before it exposed workspace activity to every logged-in user, and the SQL policy and client flag that…
 • Elena | AI Product Leader
Your Power Users Are Breaking Your Product in Silence. Here Is the Feature I Had to Ship.
How I spotted the shadow use case hiding in DraftKit’s solo workspace data and built the long-form writing environment serious creators actually needed.
 • Elena | AI Product Leader
Stop Studying for AI PM Interviews. Start Building for Them.
I built two custom apps before two major panels. Here is exactly what was in them, the prompt that generates them, and what changed when I walked in.
 • Elena | AI Product Leader
Your Billing System Is Quietly Losing Paying Users. Here Is How I Found Three Silent Failures in DraftKit.
I tested my own downgrade path and caught bugs that would have cost real money. Here is the exact playbook I used.
 • Elena | AI Product Leader
How to Stop Building Products That Work Perfectly and Feel Like Nothing
The one question I now ask before touching Lovable — and why it eliminated three features I almost shipped.
 • Elena | AI Product Leader
Your Guest Invites Are Silently Breaking. Here Is the Fix.
How I stopped manually reconnecting invited users after sign-up, and the 12-line Postgres trigger that does it automatically now.
 • Elena | AI Product Leader
How to Add Image Uploads to a Shared Workspace Without Wrecking Your Database
Most builders discover the costs of wrong implementation three weeks after shipping. Here is the architecture I used for DraftKit that stopped it before…
 • Elena | AI Product Leader
How to Stop Your AI Agent From Deleting Your Entire Database
How to audit your product edge functions before they silently discard your users data.
 • Elena | AI Product Leader
I Asked 5 AI Tools to Review My Product Plan. Only One Told Me It Was Wrong
Why I stopped using AI as a spec assistant and started using it as a product thinking partner.
 • Elena | AI Product Leader
Stop Prompting Blind: The Spec That Fixed My AI Rework Problem
Why 66% of developers waste hours on “almost right” AI code, and the 5-part template that prevents it.
 • Elena | AI Product Leader
Your AI Code Is Lying to You: 43% Fails in Production and Your PM Is the Last to Know
The verification gap is the biggest threat to AI products in 2026. Here's how I catch it before it ships, the exact checks I run, and why your product…
 • Elena | AI Product Leader
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